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MOSCOW — The Latest on Sunday during the World Cup (all times local):

11:35 p.m.

Parity has come to a World Cup.

Five of a top 6 nations in a FIFA rankings have played, and nothing has won. Only dual of a top dozen teams have victories.

Top-ranked Germany mislaid to No. 15 Mexico, second-ranked Brazil tied No. 6 Switzerland, No. 4 Portugal drew 10th-ranked Spain, and No. 5 Argentina tied 22nd-ranked Iceland.

Among other teams in a top 12, usually No. 7 France (over No. 36 Australia) and co-No. 12 Denmark (against No. 11 Peru) have victories.

No. 3 Belgium, No. 7 France, No. 8 Poland and co-No. 12 England haven’t played, and No. 9 Chile unsuccessful to qualify.

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11 p.m.

Switzerland’s well-organized fortifying held Brazil to a 1-1 pull in their World Cup opener, gripping Neymar and other enemy at brook for a most part.

Brazil midfielder Philippe Coutinho non-stop the scoring in a 20th minute, with a stylish bombardment that kick goalkeeper Yann Sommer, bouncing in off a right post. But manager Vladimir Petkovic’s Swiss players kept their restraint and dominated in midfield for prolonged spells in a Group E match.

Switzerland midfielder Steven Zuber headed in a equalizer in a 50th. Mexican arbitrate Cesar Ramos discharged complaints that Zuber had shoved defender Miranda out of a way before assembly a dilemma from Xherdan Shaqiri.

Ramos also abandoned a chastisement claim late in a second half when Brazil brazen Gabriel Jesus was wrestled to a ground by Manuel Akanji.

Petkovic kept his guarantee to perplex Brazil, that was seeking emancipation from the disastrous 2014 World Cup exit with a 7-1 semifinal better on home dirt by Germany.

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10:15 p.m.

Steven Zuber equalized for Switzerland after streamer a dilemma from Xherdan Shaqiri in a 50th minute.

Brazilians players complained that Zuber pushed defender Miranda before a goal though Mexican arbitrate Cesar Ramos discharged the censure and a score stands during 1-1.

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10 p.m.

FIFA says it is questioning reports of Mexico fans chanting a homophobic offence during a team’s win over Germany during the World Cup.

Some Mexican supporters chanted a slur when Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer prepared to take a idea kick in a 24th minute.

FIFA says “it is collecting a different compare reports and intensity evidence in regards to a matter, including a one from a anti-discrimination compare observer who was benefaction at a game as partial of FIFA’s anti-discrimination monitoring system.”

Mexico’s football association has been regularly fined by FIFA over fans chanting a slur.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport canceled dual fines opposite Mexico in November, statute the intone was “insulting” though not meant to offend, yet it left other fines in force.

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9:50 p.m.

Brazil leads 1-0 during halftime in a World Cup diversion against Switzerland after a idea in a 20th notation from Philippe Coutinho.

The Barcelona actor beat goalkeeper Yann Sommer with a well-placed shot that twisted over a ‘keeper and bounced in of a right post as a well-organized Swiss struggled to enclose the Brazilian conflict led by Neymar and Gabriel Jesus.

Thiago Silva headed only over a Swiss bar in damage time.

Coach Vladimir Petkovic’s gifted Swiss side remained stoical after surrender the goal, winning in midfield for prolonged spells and with Ricardo Rodriguez and Xheridan Shaqiri contrast the Brazilian invulnerability on a two wings

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9:30 p.m.

Germany didn’t play a way it customarily plays. Coach Joachim Loew isn’t certain why.

Stymied by Mexico’s sublime forwards and rapid counterattacks, a defending World Cup champion played a messy first half, unsuccessful to take the chances and eventually conceded a idea that hold up in Mexico’s 1-0 victory.

Loew says “We looked shaken and we were not means to play a way we wanted to play. We will have to investigate why that was a case.”

Germany is now in an unknown position. No German group had mislaid a World Cup opener given 1982. In a four prior World Cups, Germany won the opening matches by a total score of 20-2.

For a fortifying World Cup champion, however, a position is some-more familiar. Three of a past 4 have unsuccessful to make it out of a group stage.

Reminded of that statistic, Loew offering a guarantee.

“We will not humour that fate,” he said. “We will make it to a next round.”

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9:22 p.m.

Philippe Coutinho has scored for Brazil in a 20th minute, banishment the round past Yann Sommer after a Swiss goalkeeper unsuccessful to stop a pull forward from Neymar and captain Marcelo. The Barcelona midfielder sent his absolute strike curling into a top right dilemma of a Swiss goal. ___

8:37 p.m.

It’s daunting adequate for a smaller nation with reduction of a lane record to take on a group like England. But Tunisia’s holding pressure to another level.

Coach Nabil Maaloul has pronounced ahead of Monday’s opening compare against England that his group is carrying not usually the hopes of 12 million Tunisians though also those of Africa as a whole and of a Arab world.

African teams have made a unsatisfactory start to a World Cup. Egypt, Morocco and Nigeria have lost their initial matches. Senegal plays Poland on Tuesday.

On a other hand, Maaloul pronounced England players are carrying to contend with aloft expectations. That’s because he expects a match in Volgograd to be tight.

— Associated Press author Pan Pylas reported from Volgograd.

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8:20 p.m.

Cheers erupted opposite Mexico as a national group bested Germany in the first compare of a 2018 World Cup soccer tournament.

Police have encircled a Angel of Independence relic in Mexico City in expectation of throngs of fans who traditionally group there to applaud big soccer wins. Immediately after a game, some danced in front of a monument. Drivers honked horns and generous families ran by the streets fluttering the Mexican dwindle and twirling immature jerseys in a air.

Mexico kick Germany 1-0, with Hirving Lozano scoring a winning goal. It was a 22-year-old winger’s initial World Cup goal.

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8:08 p.m.

Brazil manager Tite has stranded to Neymar and core players who have performed good in new matches. Neymar and Willian will be flanking Gabriel Jesus in conflict to flog off a five-time champions’ debate in Russia.

As expected, Swiss manager Vladimir Petkovic fielded a defensive side with Haris Seferovic as a lone striker, and arrangement that can yield a two-line invulnerability in front of goalkeeper Yann Sommer.

Lineups:

Brazil: Alisson, Danilo, Thiago Silva, Miranda, Marcelo, Casemiro, Paulinho, Philippe Coutinho, Willian, Gabriel Jesus, Neymar.

Switzerland: Yann Sommer, Stephan Lichtsteiner, Fabian Schaer, Manuel Akanji, Ricardo Rodriguez, Granit Xhaka, Valon Behrami, Xherdan Shaqiri, Blerim Dzemaili, Steven Zuber, Haris Seferovic.

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7:51 p.m.

Mexico has dissapoint Germany 1-0 in their opening World Cup game, withdrawal the fortifying champions with a worse task to validate for a knockout stages.

In his World Cup debut, Hirving Lozano scored Mexico’s winning idea in a 35th minute, picking adult Javier Hernandez’s pass inside a penalty area and dodging Mesut Ozil before banishment past Manuel Neuer from 10 yards.

After Lozano’s goal, Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa pulled off a fantastic save to keep a score level, palming Toni Kroos’ shot onto a crossbar.

Mexico pulled behind into a some-more defensive arrangement midway by the second half as pivotal players sleepy and had to withstand complicated pressure from Germany.

Germany is behest to turn the initial team to keep the World Cup pretension since Brazil in 1962. It hadn’t mislaid an opening diversion since 1982.

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7:35 p.m.

Rafa Marquez has left on as a second-half surrogate for Mexico to turn just a third male to play in 5 World Cups.

The 39-year-old Marquez entered a game in a 72nd notation with Mexico heading defending champion Germany 1-0. He joins associate Mexican Antonio Carbajal and Germany’s Lothar Matthaus in a elite group.

He played 4 matches in any World Cup as Mexico was separated in a round of 16 any time.

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7:15 p.m.

A Colombia fan cycled alone for some-more than 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) opposite seven European countries to strech Russia to watch his inhabitant team play in a World Cup. The 43-year-old Daniel Quiroga primarily was going to make a journey with a hermit and a friend, though the other dual backed out of a adventure.

Four years ago, Quiroga rode from Colombia to Brazil to a 2014 World Cup with a pair, though was on a motorcycle for that journey.

After a tournament ended, he set a harder plea for Russia and chose a bicycle.

He started out in Portugal and went by Spain, France, Germany, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia before creation it to Russia. He wore a Colombia jersey sealed by members of his family and says, with a laugh, that “those signatures gave me even some-more energy.”

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6:55 p.m.

Mexican fans have chanted a homophobic offence at Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer during a World Cup diversion in Moscow.

FIFA has regularly fined a Mexican football association over a chant. It rang out at Moscow’s Luzhniki track in a 24th notation of Mexico’s diversion against Germany on Sunday with a score during 0-0.

Fans in Mexico use a chant to insult hostile goalkeepers as they take a idea kick. Widely deliberate a slur, some disagree there is no discriminatory intent.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport canceled dual fines opposite Mexico in November, statute the intone was “insulting” though not meant to offend, yet it left other fines in force.

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6:45 p.m.

Germany is in an unknown position for a World Cup opener — trailing during halftime.

Hirving Lozano scored from 14 yards out in a 35th notation to give Mexico a 1-0 lead in Moscow. He took a pass from Javier Hernandez and wrong-footed Mesut Ozil to measure his eighth general goal.

Both sides put vigour on a goalkeepers in a high-energy initial half during Luzhniki Stadium. Germany had 5 shots on idea to Mexico’s four. German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer stopped a header only short of a goal line.

Germany has won the last 7 World Cup openers, outscoring opponents 20-2 in the last four.

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6:40 p.m.

Hirving Lozano has wrong-footed Germany’s Mesut Ozil and scored from about 14 yards out to give Mexico a 1-0 lead over a defending World Cup champions.

Lozano took a pass from Javier Hernandez and got around Ozil and had a transparent path to a net in a 35th minute. It was his eighth general goal.

Both teams had several chances before a opening goal. German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer saved a header, and Germany after had dual shots on idea in a 3-minute span.

Germany trailed usually once in a last World Cup, 2-1 to Ghana, and has outscored opponents 20-2 in the past 4 World Cup openers.

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6:10 p.m.

Panama manager Hernan Dario Gomez is not in a business of sugarcoating a truth forward of his team’s ancestral World Cup debut.

He admits Panama has difficulty scoring and says it will need a good day to have any possibility against Belgium on Monday.

The blunt and honest Gomez doesn’t even censor his starting lineup, a normal procession for coaches these days — even those perplexing to keep expectations minimal.

Asked if Panama could compare Iceland’s pull with Argentina, he didn’t worry picking a right words. He says this Argentina “is not during the same turn as Belgium right now.”

— AP Sports Writer Tim Booth reported from Sochi.

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5:50 p.m.

Belgium will keep defender Vincent Kompany on a 23-man register for a World Cup even yet it’s expected to be after in a group theatre before a veteran sees a field. 

Coach Roberto Martinez pronounced Sunday he would not be creation any register changes. Kompany suffered a groin damage in a accessible against Portugal progressing this month and a Red Devils combined Laurent Ciman to their stay as a precaution. Ciman was sent behind to Brussels on Saturday to wait final word on Kompany’s status. 

Martinez says there is a stronger possibility now of Kompany now appearing in a group theatre and that his knowledge is critical to have around a squad.

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4:55 p.m.

Aleksandar Kolarov’s curling giveaway kick in a 56th notation has helped Serbia to a 1-0 win over Costa Rica in the World Cup opener.

Serbia, that missed out on a 2014 World Cup, had a early advantage in a tough organisation in Russia that includes five-time champion Brazil and Switzerland, who were set to play after Sunday in Rostov-on-Don.

After a scoreless initial half, Costa Rica goalkeeper Keylor Navas withstood a fusillade of Serbian hurdles to open a second with a boisterous Costa Rican fans entertaining him on during Samara Arena.

But after David Guzman was handed a yellow card, Kolarov twisted the giveaway kick over a wall and Navas, who plays for Real Madrid, was not means to strech it.

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4:35 p.m.

South Korea manager Shin Tae-yong has warned his players about a new replay complement being used for a first time in a World Cup. He’s revelation them that a video partner referee can’t be tricked.

Shin says “the players are wakeful of this. We are training a players. There are 32 cameras that are targeting a pitch. So we might be means to dope the referee, though you can't fool a cameras. The players know this, and that is something we have emphasized.”

Shin is famous for regulating some cunning in his tactics. But he says his players have been scholastic about a new system, that will detect a dive or a calculated contact with another player.

He says “the VAR has unequivocally come to a forefront and it’s turn an critical part of a game.”

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4:15 p.m.

Captain Aleksandar Kolarov has given Serbia a 1-0 lead opposite Costa Rica. His giveaway kick twisted over a wall and diving Costa Rica goalkeeper Keylor Navas wasn’t means to strech it before it sailed into a upper right dilemma in a 56th minute. The giveaway kick came after a yellow label on Costa Rica’s David Guzman.

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3:48 p.m.

The opening half between Costa Rica and Serbia was behind and forth, right from a start: Aleksandar Mitrovic’s header was off in a opening notation and moments after Marco Urena’s pointed shot for Costa Rica was saved in a left dilemma by Vladimir Stojkovic.

Following a dilemma kick, David Guzman popped a ball to Giancarlo Gonzalez though his header sailed over a net in a 12th minute. Branislav Ivanovic’s cranky was knocked out of a box by Costa Rica goalkeeper Keylor Navas 3 minutes later.

Sergej Milinkovic-Savic challenged Navas in a 27th from only outside a box, though Navas fell on a ball.  

Urena’s right-foot strike from outward the box in a 39th went over a bar. A brief time after Calvo’s possibility was wide, and Stojkovic gestured for his side to ease down. 

Milinkovic-Savic’s bicycle flog from in front of idea was ruled offside in a 42nd.

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3:15 p.m.

Sweden manager Janne Andersson says one of his staff got into a sealed South Korea training event and was asked to leave, heading to a quarrel between a teams over espionage ahead of their World Cup diversion on Monday.

Andersson says a staffer, who is entrusted with scouting a opposition, suspicion the use session during South Korea’s pre-World Cup training stay in Austria was open. Andersson says a coach left when asked and “watched from some-more of a distance.”

The occurrence has combined a glacial atmosphere between a teams forward of their diversion in Nizhny Novgorod.

Andersson says his group analyzes all opponents and a incident has been overblown, though adds “it’s really important that we uncover respect for opponents ... If it has been viewed in another way, we apologize.”

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2:40 p.m.

Veteran defender Branislav Ivanovic is set to turn Serbia’s many capped general player when he starts opposite Costa Rica in a World Cup. It will be his 104th general appearance and Serbia’s initial at a World Cup in 8 years.

The former Chelsea star surpassed Dejan Stankovic, famous as “Deki,” who played 103 games for a national group from 1998-2013, by three opposite eras: Yugoslavia, Serbia-Montenegro and finally Serbia.

Johan Venegas, Francisco Calvo and David Guzman will be creation their World Cup debuts for Costa Rica. The rest of a Costa Rica starting lineup was concerned in Brazil in 2014, when a team mislaid a quarterfinal compare to Netherlands on penalties.

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2:20 p.m.

Midfielder Alan Dzagoev has ruled himself out of Russia’s dual remaining World Cup organisation games since of injury.

Dzagoev harm his left hamstring during Russia’s opening 5-0 win over Saudi Arabia and tells Russia’s RIA Novosti news group he’s in pain when walking and will usually resume light training Monday.

Dzagoev says “there’s zero good about a biggest contest going on but you. we hope we can still play. we hope to God that we make a knockout stages and maybe I’ll be means to play.”

Dzagoev has played 58 times for Russia and was approaching to be a pivotal player for a host republic at a World Cup.

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12:45 p.m.

Diego Maradona has given his chronicle of an sell with an Asian fan that witnesses viewed as racist.

British radio staff operative in Spartak Stadium in Moscow during Argentina’s 1-1 pull with Iceland on Saturday reported saying Maradona respond to South Korea fans job his name.

On Twitter, BBC presenter Jacqui Oatley posted that Maradona “obliged with a smile, lick and wave. Then pulled his eyes to a side in a clearly extremist gesture.”

In a Facebook summary early Sunday, a Argentina good says he saw “an Asian child wearing an Argentina T-shirt.”

He adds: “I, from afar, attempted to tell them how good it seemed to me that even a Asians hearten for us. And that’s all, guys, come on.”

FIFA principle prohibit acts of taste by teams, officials and fans during games it organizes.

In a response to The Associated Press, FIFA refers to the anti-discrimination manners without commenting on a incident.

Maradona also apologizes for smoking a cigar in a VIP seats, notwithstanding a FIFA anathema on smoking during World Cup stadiums.

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12:20 p.m.

Moscow military are questioning a cab crash that harmed eight people, including dual Mexican World Cup fans, when a driver plowed into pedestrians on a path near Red Square.

Video present on Russian amicable media and some news websites showed a taxi veering onto a sidewalk Saturday and distinguished pedestrians. The source of a video was unclear.

City military released a video Sunday of an inquire session with a male identified as a Kyrgyz cab driver, in that he says he quickly fell defunct at a wheel in a crash and incidentally accelerated. It was misleading whether a man spoke underneath duress.

The male says he hadn’t slept in 20 hours, and ran divided after a accident since he was fearful that indignant bystanders would kill him. He was after detained.

Moscow military would not criticism Sunday on either the pile-up would impact security measures for a World Cup, that is being hold in 11 Russian cities over a next month. Among a security concerns has been a possible use of vehicles as weapons.

The Mexican Embassy told The Associated Press that a two harmed female fans met with embassy member and were not hospitalized. The Mexican inhabitant soccer teams plays opposite Germany on Sunday in Moscow.

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